Merit Stillson Wrench Restoration.
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- My brother offered up one of his tools for restoration making sure to add, " I'm going to get this back, Right?" as I left. Functionally the wrench didn't need to be restored...a solid great wrench...but sometimes that's exactly what you want to restore. I hope you like this one as it turned out pretty nice.
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It took only 3 of your videos to get into my top3 of restoration channels. Amazing work.
Thanks M T!
Awesome...!!! You are a Master. Your attention to detail is amazing. Thank You...? Heading to the garage to clean my humble tools.
Tool restoration projects are my lunchtime work-from-home Zen. Great job! I appreciate the "humbler" approach to accomplishing your restorations, and I think you'll inspire many folks to use their tools as creatively as you do.
I like when u wax to cover the scratches which most restorer don’t do n I like how you mad a colourful paint gr8 job u deserve a big thumbs up 👍
"Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wrench like me?" 😊
Too funny! Lol.
Amen!
"gold Jerry,gold!"
I’m not sure why you quoted “Amazing Grace”.
@@WesW3187 if you're not sure, then I'm not sure why you commented 🤷🏻
Oh the time invested into this is astounding to me. The one thing of real value in this life is time.
As a professional plumber this restoration is much appreciated 😍
Great resto video. -- Btw, anyone that tries to tell you what they woulda done while restoring (aside from just shortcuts for same results) really need to just make their own channel.
The style and colors you choose are self-expression -- keep it up... looks great.
God job and thanks for showing us how it’s done... I’m a first time guy that subbed... 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Great video, didn’t like the colors you picked at first but once I saw them on the wrench I wouldn’t go another way.
Thanks Matt. I always go back and forth on finishes. Part of me would like to restore it 100% original to see what it must have looked like back in the day. And part of me wants to mod the heck out of it and see what I can do to it. This time....mod’in it won! I was pleased with the final colors.
Found your videos this morning, very nice job.......keep up the good work and jokes.
Amazing job man. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Again, a super excellent detailed restoration. I would not have chosen yellow -- kind of makes it unhappy!
Thanks for sharing that restoration. I picked up some tips on grinding off and retapping for the springs for when I feel brave enough to tackle my pipe wrench. All the best!
That’s now a museum piece! Incredible!
I see you're a man of culture (i've got the same tap & die kit, and same vice, probably from the same store....) amazing restoration as usual!
Quality work, definitely deserves more viewers
Just love your work you do everything correctly and get the results you deserve you have a talent
Brilliant, I wasn't expecting the bolts to replace the rivets for the springs
Happy to have seen this before the channel takes off. Pretty sure its gonna blow up!
Hey Scoutandlouie! Thanks for the encouraging words! Fingers crossed!
@@KILORESTORATION Wow. Congratulations. over 40K now.
Bellissimo! Avrei lasciato senza vernice le parti che fanno attrito, ma per il resto magistrale lavoro anche di montaggio video! Complimenti!!
Looks amazing!! Gr8 job bud!!
I’m here for these videos bro! You don’t have many is there another channel I don’t know about or what? Great work & I love how quiet the videos are. No talking, just captions & work. Love it!
Great job! A true artisan!
A work of art. You wouldn't want to use it 👌
Looks like a dewalt wrench 🤣 nice job! I like the attention to detail... very mymechanics-esque 😉 keep these videos up and you’ll grow in no time
A super job!! Wish I had your skill and patience. From the few tool restorations i've done, I learned to leave no bare steel. It started rusting again in no time. So lately I would blue or black all those surfaces. Oiling the bued or blackened surfaces also seem to last longer than on bare steel.
Hey Deon! Absolutely blued and oiled for a working tool. Keep in mind clear 2K spray lacquer is as tough as paint if you wanted to protect ‘bare” metal, but keep that look. Thanks for the comment.
Beautiful work, thanks for sharing
2:00 Yeah love the sparks..They were a great band! "This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us" 👍🏻
A ferramenta ficou muito bonita.
Parabéns pelo capricho!👏
Um abraço de um amigo brasileiro.🤜🤛🇧🇷
It looks like a transformer! Maybe bumblebee! Beautiful work! I'm a new subscriber
Just amazing! Well done :)
Very good job my friend👍. Greetings from Greece😃
Hey SImple Man! Greece!! That fantastic...hello from America!
Love that yellow 👍👍👍
Really beautiful work. Nice sense of humour as well making the video quite entertaining! Thank you! Did miss the pussycat!
Top quality work! 🧡
Clear restoration 👍👍👍👌🏽✌🏻🇷🇺
Dark Green and polished steel!
Beautiful!!
Great video! I just wanted to comment on the folks who tell you how to “improve” the quality of your work or suggest what tools and materials you should use. Maybe they should give example in their videos. Please don’t let the criticism discourage you. Keep up the good work.
Interesting style of wrench
Nice drawing!
Really nice!
Nice work, as always.... the video editing was very good..... wouldn't change a thing....... did miss the cat......
BLACK AND YELLOW!!!! ALWAYS BLACK AND YELLOW
Looks better than new even with the yellow
I hope you make some money selling these tools
I was gonna say; I saw you with the screwdriver at first, then finally a punch.. and was relieved, finding myself thinking; "he is not a total barbarian".
You need a nice set of drift punches and a couple in brass, maybe Santy Claws can get you some if you are a good boy.
The restoration was amazing, the yellow wasn’t good for me. Also, a two component paint would be the way to go. And instead of black paint I would blue the parts instead.
Perfect colors!
Yep! Cold bluing …
Stunning!
More like this. Please 🥺
Really cool. It would be cool if you put actual man hours it takes to do in each video description!
You are the George Barris of tools.
Hey Heru-deshet. I’m a car guy so I know of George Barris, but I’m not sure if that’s a compliment! Thanks for the comment!
@@KILORESTORATION It sure is!
Amazing work and patience, how many hours on the renovation??
Fun stuff. Where do we mail our tools? 😳
Well....ill be pulling out my old stiltsons now. Thanks a lot..this is guna annoy the wife no end lol
Great job, I’ve never seen someone tape with gloves 🧤 on!
Hey Wheels in time Diecast! It wasn’t fun! Thanks for the comment!
Nice.. thank you...very cool
MAGIC JUST MAGIC .
Another beautiful restoration. I'm not a huge fan of the paint scheme but it came out great nonetheless.
WOW;;;;;;;;............great job I wouldnt want to ever use it to nice.....
A great restoration with fine colors but I wonder how long the paint will last as it is not a two-component paint. A tool for display?
Hey Frank! You make a great point. The paint I used was ceramic impregnated...pretty tough stuff. But typically I use off-the-shelf Rust-oleum....not so tough. It’s really a matter of cost. But, 2K paint , as you said, or powder coating would take a beating way beyond what I’m using. As my channel grows it would be fun to do a project in 2K, wet sand it and wheel it out. Thanks for the comment!
@@KILORESTORATION I would think powder coating is really efficient and cheaper than special paints.
The ceramic paint was left from painting the brake calipers on my car. The plan is to go powder coating for sure. If I wasn’t trying to make videos of the processes I would go buy a $75 used oven and the $75 powder coating gun and be done with it… But because I video it… To get the proper impact for the viewer the oven should have a glass door which adds cost. So that’s more of a future wish list thing along with a sand blaster.
@@KILORESTORATION I think that most of your present and future viewers would prefer to see that it's not needed to have expensive equipment for doing restorations. I would recommend you get the entry level equipment for powder coating to begin with.
Please ask the others here for advice.
Very nice restoration and polish job. Not foolishly fond of the yellow but excellent job anyway.
I couldn't figure out after all that wonderful work if you had recut the teeth to make them sharp or not.??
Hey P T ! Nope, I never did recut the teeth just some clean up with a file that the video doesn’t show. Thanks for the comment.
Great restoration, hideous yellow :)
Une merveille 👍👍👍👍
Sweet
The modern Bob Ross, far out man...
Could you elaborate on the different styles of dremel stones and sanding pads you use please. Your Proto Ratchet was otherworldly.
Hey Ryan! Typically I just buy a kit that includes grinding stones, polishing stones, deburring tips and what not. Dremel makes a great one. But I think the one from Harbor Freight is fine too. To really know what you want to use for any given situation, you just have to experiment. Thanks for asking!
Amazing g
I dig the Pikachu pipe wrench
Good videos. 09:50, while the plastic filler is tacky use a cheese grater rasp to remove large pieces to save yourself time and sand paper.
Hey Jose! Great tip! There are some tools that I need to buy to speed up the process, for sure.
Amazing job with the restoration, I admire your patience with the sanding. However the Yellow was straight up foreigner spec. I feel like a neutral dark grey or charcoal would have suited better or a polished handle with a black recess. Hope you do more of these!
Did your brother get his wrench back? And did he like it?
Yes and yes. It’s now a display piece in his shop.
Una gran manera de aprender comserbar erramoentss
You do realise the shame that all users of these tools will feel now when they get out their tools to use and the possible comments from somebody who has seen your vid !! Nice job.
What's the reason for the bondo instead of just painting directly?
Storm blue would be nice
My 2 cents. Should have just sanded the blazes out of it then CHROMED IT ALL!
Ok, at least chemically etched it all black then polished it all to a shinny thing.
Would have silenced all the color comments!
Also, as a helpful note, go to H.F. and get a small hand held media blaster. Will save you a lot of time cleaning everything up. Provided that you do more of these.
Finished project can go up for bid. Who wants it can get it for a price. Why not?
Thanks for the comments, Danny! I do hope you upgrade some of my tools someday and get some new ones. But for now I’m just trying to make do with what I have.
Wait I have this exact same wrench from the exact same brand. 😮
I love this shit 👍👍
I've got a Vintage Rigid pipe wrench that truly needs restoration. Missing jaw teeth, handle beat to hell, missing chunks out of jaw, rusty, dirty and OLD. Perfect candidate for restoration. Interested in the challenge?
GOOD JOB
what did you restore?polishing and painting are not restoration
WOW!! 👍
Epic!!!
Wonderful attention to detail. If you accept work, how can I get in touch?
Sorry. Roger, I wouldn’t feel comfortable working on projects for other people. Then the pressure would really be on! But thanks for the vote of confidence.
Looks really nice, but...
1: Please don't drag your file backwards, it doesn't do anything other than wear the file. Way to trigger an old fitter...
2: Why did you paint the threaded piece on the upper jaw, the paint will wear off with use anyway?
I thought the thing. This is the only resto I saw paint the threads. I also agree with the file use.
Hey Henrik! I actually do know proper filing technique. But no, I don’t always do it. It’s a bit of a bad habit. ..I admit. What I painted on the wrench was for appearances....my brother has it hanging up it was never intended to go back in to service. Thanks for commenting.
@@KILORESTORATION Bad habits die hard... :P
Well, it's almost a shame not using it after putting all that time and energy into restoring it, but it *is* very decorative. :)
You polished the crap out of it just to paint it.... really don’t get that but beautiful outcome.
Please use flathead screws or new rivets on items that are before Phillips screws, personally I would have gone with the original colors
Syperp 👌👏👍
What a piece of History being restored she belongs hung on display at the Smithsonian Institute
I wouldn't have painted the jaws and the threads of the adjustment shaft, and the bits of spring steel - those will both get all scratched up - should have just sanded and wire brushed them super clean, and blued them.
Music at the end ?
Hey Anthony! When I started UA-cam I couldn’t find any copyright free music and didn’t realize that UA-cam offered some. So that is something I wrote just to put in the videos. It has no name. Thanks for the question!
@@KILORESTORATION it was awesome !
Mirror finish this wrench, bro!
Looks like the weapon carried by a Brazilian soccer hooligan!
Классный ролик мне нравится БРАВО✋👍👏👏
Wow
Perfeito !
Red....yellow ochre....deep forest green.
Come on 1)wash with cellulose thinner 2)treat painted parts with mek remover 3) new wash with cellulose thinner 5)total sandblasting 6 ) phosphating.